The prescription Prescription Prescription is an order for
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The prescription
Prescription • Prescription: is an order for a medicine (s) written by physician, dentist, veterinarian or other licensed health science practitioner legally entitled prescriber. • Prescription Parts: • 1 - Name 2 - Date • 3 - Superscription 4 - Inscription • 5 - Subscription 6 - Transcription • 7 - Signature • Prescription Type: • 1 - Simple 2 - Compound 3 - Narcotic • Prescription Handling: • 1 - Receiving 2 - Check safety 3 - Compounding
Prescription Parts 1 Patient's name: age: address: 2 Date: 3 4 R/: 5 Salicylamide 0. 3 gm 6 Paracetamol 0. 25 gm 7 Fiat capsule , mitte X Sign: one capsule to be taken three times daily Prescriber's Signature Dr………
Prescription Parts Cont… 1. 2. 3. The name address and age of the patient The date The superscription: means direction to pharmacist, R/ is a symbol for the Latin word recipe = you take i. e. it directs the pharmacist to prepare the medicine. The inscription, contains a list of ingredients and their quantities to be used in compounding the prescription The subscription: means direction to pharmacist 4. 5. – – 6. The transcription: means direction to patient – 7. Fiat: let them be made (dosage from) Mitte: send (number, of doses to be prepared) sign= write directions to the patient for the use of the prescription The name of the prescriber, may be given as an official signature
Prescription types 1. Simple prescription: It is the prescription consisting only of the active ingredients (as the prescription mentioned before) 2. Compound prescription: The prescription contains four portions: 1 - Base 2 - Adjuvant 3 - Corrective 4 - Vehicle 3. Narcotic prescription: • It must be written in ink or typewriter. • The quantities must be written in words and numbers. • In pharmacy, it must include date on which it was filled, name, address and registry number of the pharmacy. • It should be kept in separate file and not be refilled.
Example for compound prescription 1. Patient: name……. . age……. . address………. . 2. Date: 3. R/ 4. Chloral hydrate 8 gm base 5. Sodium bromide 10 gm adjuvant 6. Syrup of raspberry 22. 5 ml corrective 7. Water to 60 ml Vehicle 8. Fiat: mixture 9. Sign: 4 ml every 4 hours 10. Signature of prescriber
Example for compound prescription Cont… - Base: is the main active ingredient with the main therapeutic effect. (Chloral hydrate is hypnotic) - Adjuvant: it aids the base in its action (sodium bromide has a sedative action) - Corrective: serve as flavouring agent - Vehicle: water is added to dilute the active ingredient and to adjust the volume.
3 -Narcotic Prescription - Narcotics are drugs with narcotic activity e. g. morphine - It must include: name of prescriber address of prescriber registry number of prescriber signature of prescriber
Example for Narcotic prescription 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Patient's name…………. . age…………. address………… Date………. R/ Codeine phosphate 20(twenty) mg Fiat: Capsule, Mitte 16 (sixteen) Caps. Signa: One Capsule Four times a day Prescriber's name: Address: Registry no. : Signature: Dr…………. .
